When Vern Bird was born on 28 November 1929, in Bluebell, Wasatch, Utah, United States, his father, Leroy Bird, was 28 and his mother, Lillian Leora Bristol, was 21. He married Esther Veloy Farnsworth on 2 July 1951, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States. He lived in World in 1950 and Roosevelt, Duchesne, Utah, United States in 2010. He died on 6 March 2010, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Memorial Redwood Mortuary and Cemetery, West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Being supported through Salt Lake City taxes, Hogle Zoo has been at its present location at the mouth of Emigration Canyon since 1931 on land donated by Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hogle. In 1936, the zoo purchased Princess Alice, an elephant, from a traveling circus. She gave birth to the first elephant born in Utah. His name was Prince Utah and he died at eleven months old. Current exhibits include various birds, mammals, and reptiles from around the world.
Before the Twenty-second Amendment, the Presidency didn’t have a set number limit on how many times they could be elected or re-elected to the office of President of the United States. The Amendment sets that limit to two times, consecutively or not, and sets additional conditions for presidents who succeed to the unexpired terms of their predecessors.
English and Scottish: nickname for a young or a small and slender person, from Middle English brid, bird, burd (Old English bird, brid, perhaps also byrd) ‘bird, young bird’, also ‘young man, young woman, child’.
Irish: Anglicized form of a number of Irish names erroneously thought to contain the element éan ‘bird’, in particular Ó hÉinigh (see Heagney ), Ó hÉanna (see Heaney ), Ó hÉanacháin (see Heneghan ), and Mac an Déaghanaigh (see McEneaney ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘bird’, as for example German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Vogel , French Loiseau , Czech Ptáček (see Ptacek ) and Pták, Polish Ptak .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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